The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) yesterday ended maintaining downbeat of previous day's trading session. With a loss of 48.34 points or 1.00 percent from the previous day, the broad index, DSEX closed in red at 4761.87 points on Sunday.
Besides, the two selective indices, DSE30 also declined by 15.37 points while the Shariah index, DSES decreased by 11.74 points to stand at 1689.16 points and 1099.87 points respectively. The depressed market outlook kept the investors worried, which displayed poor market participation and dropped below Taka 3.0 billion.
On the DSE trading floor, a total number of 100,937 trades were executed in Sunday's trading session with a trading volume of 85.99 million securities. Losers took a strong lead over the gainers as out of 345 issues traded, 41 securities gained price while 267 declined and 37 remained unchanged.
All the sectors, especially telecom, engineering, financial institutions, textile, bank, and fuel and power sectors contributed notably to the fall of the indices.Top ten traded stocks captured around 38.6% of the day's total turnover where national tubes topped the turnover list with 8.5% contribution.
The investors' activity was mostly centered on engineering (21.9%), pharma (20.0%) and textile (8.2%) sectors while national tubes (8.5%), Wata Chemicals (4.9%) and Beacon pharma (4.4%) led the turnover board yesterday, according to International Leasing Securities.
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) also registered a downbeat maintaining the previous day. CSCX and CASPI decreased by 86.13 points and 145.19 points to stand at 8814.43 points and 14510.21 points respectively.
At CSE, a total of 5,284,095 shares and mutual fund of 236 companies were traded, of which 30 issues advanced while 181 declined and 25 issues remained unchanged.
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